Kali linux stucked in boot loading after dist-upgrade 4.17.0

So, is almost 10 months that I'm using kali linux every day but I'm still noob when i need to fix something.

Last night after some days of update notifications, I decided to run apt-get update and apt-get dist-upgrade.

Then turned off. This morning sadly my kali in dual boot with windows doesn't boot, it's stucked here

https://ibb.co/jLfOT9

in recovery mode is stucked here

https://ibb.co/cWVe1U


(Just ignore the wifi card firmware missing and Acpi bios error, always got them, never been a problem)

Notebook:
Intel i7 7700 HQ
integrated graphic card + Nvidia 1050ti (never used coz i gave up installing nvidia drivers in the 2017)
16 gb ram
80gb of disk space -15gb still free


I'm almost sure is always the same problem: is the nvidia drivers even if I didnt touch them


In the grub params I have set : nomodeset quite splash

like someone here in forum suggested me the first time i got this problem months ago, then I also tried nouveau.nomodeset=0 looking in the last threads.

I have just got this problem so I'm still working on it, but any advice or fix is apreciated


Ask me everything you need to know

I guess your best bet is to try booting the latest weekly ISO to see if it works. If it does, then back up the data (check out clonezilla) and reinstall kali. There doesn't seem to be anything special other than the error with acpi and ath10k (the latter can probably be solved by installing the firmware, should be something like firmware-atheros, just search for "firmware atheros" with apt).

so seems, i can still run it in terminal mode. Almost confirming is something related to the graphic card drivers, so I installed lightdm instead of gdm3 but didn't work, i need to read what they changed with the last update to figure a fix

Checking the journalctl logs. Soon I will post the errors



Edit:

Ok so, ignoring acpi error and atheros firmware which i m sure aren t the problem (i always got them)

here the first weird red error in the logs:

https://ibb.co/hCybY9

i don't like it.. but still thinking isn't the problem


And now after lightdm installation
maybe the problem

https://ibb.co/cx9iD9

I will re-use gdm3 to see logs asap

And btw thank you misterX it will be the last thing i will try.. to many configurations setted on my kali, i cannot lose them

So i make a new post to be clear:

Here what exactly freeze my kali boot------>gdm3


is a loop

https://ibb.co/dNCWGU
https://ibb.co/d7YtVp
https://ibb.co/jGgrGU
https://ibb.co/bYUNO9

Here the xorg.0.log

https://ibb.co/k9ghap
https://ibb.co/cbFKMU



Here the result of X command:

https://ibb.co/h79h89

i tried something like:
dpkg-reconfigure gdm3
service gdm3 start


and now i'm going to looking inside the xorg configuration




Maybe the firmware i915/kbl_dmc_ver1_04.bin

after some work i got this in the boot loading

https://ibb.co/c9dqd9



I guess some problem with the capability of restore diplay registers?

Still looking for a fix.

Here the 2 errors I found with xorg:

X -configure

FATAL: module fbcon not found

https://ibb.co/keOn89


Meanwhile in the xorg.0.log


Fatal server error:
Cannot run in framebuffer mode. Please specify bus IDs for all framebuffer devices

https://ibb.co/fGx30p



Reading logs, this time aren't nvidia drivers, instead is the integrated intel graphic card having some isssue (i915)

i tried to boot something like vga=normal in boot params.. idk how to fix the framebuffer error

And why modprobe isn't finding the right module?

I don't think my hardware has been damaged meanwhile i was sleeping, also windows is correctly working on the same machine, what this dist upgrade modified about intel modules/drivers?

I'm noob just trying to learn more as possible to fix my kali, hoping in some linux master coming here to help me

Update:

Found the missing kaby lake firmware
i915/kbl_dmc_ver1_04.bin

on my kali there was only the 1_01 version, so i added it. but it didnt help.

Quote:

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Originally Posted by Mister_X

I guess your best bet is to try booting the latest weekly ISO to see if it works. If it does, then back up the data (check out clonezilla) and reinstall kali. There doesn't seem to be anything special other than the error with acpi and ath10k (the latter can probably be solved by installing the firmware, should be something like firmware-atheros, just search for "firmware atheros" with apt).

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At the end, i gave up. After a small /home backup, i tried to install a 2017.3 i had on my usb. Everything went fine. When i tried dist upgrade again. The bug happened again.

So, i tried only apt-get update and apt-get upgrade to check if was the dist-upgrade bugging my distro( changing dependencies with new versions of packages missing something) , and it worked a bit, i mean the distro boot normally, was able to start with the graphic interface, but idk why the terminal wasn't working, click on it, shurtcut etc etc no way to open it. (Not surprised)

There is no way I can upgrade my distro?

I tried to install the 2018.2 4.15.0 and also the E17 version, which worked in live mode, but both gave me error during installation saying the image on the usb was corrupted ( i tried 2 different usb and 2 different iso writers).

Maybe just a case, both usb or iso had problems. Tomorrow i'm going to try again as soon i will be at home.


Atm seems my clevo assembled notebook cannot work with the last kali realese.